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RED BANK: BOARD OF ED OK’S 9.5 PERCENT SCHOOL TAX HIKE
Red Bank taxpayers will shell out 9.5 percent more to run the two district schools as officials cite skyrocketing health care costs. (click to read)
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AS ENROLLMENT DROPS, CHARTER SCHOOL RECRUITS OUTSIDE RED BANK
With ten percent of its seats empty and once-long wait list shrunken, Red Bank Charter School enrolls more children from out of town. (Click to read)
RED BANK: NEW LIBRARY MURAL SHINES
Red Bank Public Library mural depicts fauna featured in literature, the local landscape, and one Red Bank student's cherished memories. (Click to read.)
RED BANK SCHOOLS EYE 9.5 PERCENT TAX LEVY HIKE
Statewide school funding crunch hits Red Bank as district seeks 9.5 percent tax levy hike. (Click to read)
RED BANK SEES BOOM IN KIDS BIKING TO SCHOOL
Red Bank Middle School sees a boom in kids riding bikes to school. (Click to read)
RED BANK: ADULT, CHILD FOUND DEAD IN HOME
An adult female and a juvenile are found dead in a home in Red Bank. The Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office Major Crime Bureau is investigating. (click to read)
JUDGE TO RED BANK CHARTER SCHOOL: FORK OVER YOUR WAITING LIST
Red Bank Charter School says it stopped turning over its waiting list because Red Bank Borough schools were using it to intimidate families. A judge ruled they need to hand it over. (click to read)
RED BANK : PROJECT REMAKES RED BANK PRIMARY SCHOOL GROUNDS
Work is underway to improve drainage and upgrade the grounds and offices of the Red Bank Primary School. (click to read)
RED BANK: SCHOOL TAX HIKE TRIMMED TO 10 PERCENT
A planned 13 percent hike in Red Bank school taxes is whittled down to ten percent by a last minute curveball from Trenton. (click to read)
RED BANK SCHOOLS SEEK TAX HIKE TO COVER STATE AID CUTS
Squeezed by state aid cuts and skyrocketing costs, Red Bank Borough schools ask state to allow a 13 percent tax levy hike. (click to read)
RED BANK: MIDDLE SCHOOL GRADS REUNITE AT HARVARD
Friends since kindergarten, two Red Bank Middle School students join Harvard University's class of 2028. (click to read)
RED BANK: TREE REMOVALS DIG UP CONCERNS
The removal of two trees sparked concerns in a neighborhood where some still feel burned over abrupt tree removals last year. (click to read)
RED BANK: MIDDLE SCHOOL GROUNDS GET MAKEOVER
RED BANK: Work begins on a running/walking track, pickleball courts, basketball courts and a gazebo behind the Red Bank Middle School. (click to read)
RED BANK: AID BILL EASES, BUT DOESN’T END SCHOOL BUDGET SQUEEZE
RED BANK: Borough Schools get some relief from bill aimed at restoring state aid cuts, but financial squeeze still causing pain.
RED BANK: AID CUTS REKINDLE CHARTER DEBATE
RED BANK: School district again decries double whammy of state funding cuts and forking over millions to charter school.
RED BANK: SCHOOLS EYE “DEVASTATING” STATE AID CUTS
RED BANK: Borough schools face cutbacks if a proposed massive cut in state aid is not restored.
RED BANK: COUNCIL HONORS SOCCER CHAMPS
RED BANK: Mayor Billy Portman and the Red Bank council honored the middle school boys' soccer squad for a championship season last week.
RED BANK: FOREST LEAVES SCHOOL BOARD
RED BANK: Board of education bids goodbye to longtime member Ben Forest, who joins the council July 1, and welcomes new member.
RED BANK: RUMAGE NAMED SUPER OF THE YEAR
RED BANK: Borough schools leader Jared Rumage named Monmouth County Superintendent of the Year for 2023.
RED BANK: DISTRICT TEACHERS HONORED
RED BANK: Six teachers and support personnel earn New Jersey Department of Education honors.
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CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.
BRAZEN LAWLESSNESS?
Who does this? One of those famously (and, yes apocryphally) illegal-to-remove mattress tags lies on the plaza outside the Count Basie Cente ...
SUNNY SKIES, JAZZY VIBES AT RED BANK ARTS FEST
A jazz combo comprised of current and former students of the Red Bank-based Jazz Arts Project performed at the first Red Bank Arts Festival ...
COOL JUNE BRIDE RIDE
It’s a wedding thing. (Photo and text by Rosann Dal Pra)  
RED BANK CLASSIC 5k
Runners at the starting line of the Red Bank Classic 5k Saturday morning.
WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY AT COUNT BASIE FIELD
Solid turnout, festive vibes and a huge Mexico win: Count Basie Park World Cup Watch Party photos. (Click to read)
DOUBLE RAINBOW OVER RED BANK
Partyline contributor captures stunning double rainbow over Red Bank.
RED BANK: SINKHOLE ON SHREWSBURY AVE
Emergency sinkhole repairs closed Shrewsbury Avenue northbound traffic for most of the day Wednesday.
NAVESINK SUNRISE
Partyliner captures stunning sunrise over the Navesink River in Red Bank.
DRONES SCRUB BANK BUILDING
Partyline photo: A power washing drone was used to clean the exterior of the Ocean First Bank Building at 110 West Front Street recently.
MESSAGE TO READERS
Please stand by: A quick message to readers about a pause in news coverage.
IN THE DISTANCE, NEW STATUE UNVEILED
A new monument commemorating the 250th anniversary of US Independence is unveiled in a park that only has a Red Bank mailing address.
CARPY DIEM
From the redbankgreen Partyline: A pair of large carp cruise the shallows under Hubbard's Bridge (Senator Kyrillos Bridge) on Front Street T ...
BIBS ON FOR OPENING DAY
Partyline: Two longtime neighbors re-unite for lobsters on the Boondocks Fishery opening day.